[sclug] kubuntu probs/questions

[Jonathan H N Chin]

john at stumbles.org.uk wrote:
> Havn't tried mkisofs or cdrecord, but since nothing's showing up on the 
> system at /dev/hdd (where the Pioneer drive is connected) I guess it's a 
> lower-level problem than k3b itself. I'd have put it down to a hardware 
> fault or system configuration problem, except that the kubuntu live cd 
> finds the drive and writes to it OK!

I had a vague impression that dvd writers present as SCSI devices,
not as IDE. Perhaps try something like:

	cdrecord -scanbus
	dvdrecord -scanbus
	cat /proc/scsi/scsi

and see if your Pioneer is available that way?


-jonathan

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